A to Z Challenge

It has been ages since I posted!  I have been down and stuck on the blog inspiration.  I will admit that the creative juices have been at a minimum.  So look forward to April being all about new challenges.  Here is to me taking "saying yes" and see where it leads me.  Enjoy!

I Will Survive

This week in the quest to saying yes to opportunities, there will come a time when you will cross "the victim" along your way to your bliss and your highest good.  Sometimes they will do things to hurt you, bring you down  or simply get in the way.  I suppose they are a reality of life.  There are these people so consumed with their insecurities and how they see the world in such a negative state of mind that they act in a manner that harms you or impacts you in a negative way.  Life ain't fair in that regard but it is what it is.

All you have is the control over your choices and dealing with what is in front of you with courage and the best of you at the time.  The rest you partner with the Almighty for Grace to be with you and the situation.  Knowing that, you know that you will survive and end up on top.  So yes, the victims of this world will cross your path.  have courage to deal with them and the situation with the best of you.  You will survive if you stay true to the truth?

Insecurity Within Change - 5 Things

So change is the only constant.  It is so cliché yet sooooooo true!  Change is the only constant you can bank on.  There are way too many variables in life for you to bank that everything you know stays the same. So this is the case of making your empowered decisions and you hit that patch where your insecurities crop up and you wonder if the path you are following or giving into is really worth it!  Some CB Thoughts :

1. Come back to the middle.  When you take the EGO out and fear out the way, if it feels good where  you heading, plod along!  Sometimes we so caught up in the fear that we forget to see the evidence of  the good around us
2. Solutions and opportunities are around.  It is our ability to see them.  When I am insecure and I catch myself, I surrender and ask for an open mind to see it differently and embrace what is being offered to me
3. At some point you are going to have to learn how to trust in the goodness and greatness that is on its way to you.  If you going to play the game, start playing it true and leap! And you know when it is right in your heart
4. People will change on you and situations will change but be willing to rise above that and see it from a higher perspective.  For me, when I started embracing my change, I lost my project position that made me feel so powerful and worth it to someone else and I was rather scared about it.  But now, I realise that I have more freedom to pursue opportunities and value add that play to my strengths and allow me to actually enjoy my day with what I get to do.  I also have much more freedom to shape my day and what I do.  Not all that bad once I was willing to let go of my old position and my unhealthy attachment to it!
5. Trust in your ability to respond in the right way.  Everyday my prayer is one that speaks to me knowing what I need to know, when I need to know it and that it will make sense in that moment for me to take the right action or make the right decision

Go Strong and SAY YES!

A Happy Song

Somedays you just need a happy song!  I heard this the other day on my way to Pilates and made my day and just  made me a very happy boy.  It is really just a happy song.  Bounce along!  Yay!

The Hero Within You!

I still love the earlier albums of Mariah Carey.  This song is one of the best she has done.  Know that within you, you have all the creative juices, wisdom and the ability to do what is needed to be happy and make your dreams come true.  It comes with awareness, trust and faith.  Start today by giving it a try on some aspects on your life and start growing the trust within yourself.

I have decided to test it on a project to really drive home to my head and heart how to tap into my ability to make my life awesome for me.  It starts by giving yourself permission to step up and drive your life to happiness.  Say yes to the HERO within you!  And give that HERO within you a chance to breathe and be a part of you.

With Love

Say YES!

My Darlins!  It has been such a long time since I posted.  I have been very overwhelmed with so much that is happening in my life, so I do apologise for not taking the time to have my say CrazeeBee style for the past few weeks.  If anything, the past few days have let me see the importance of "saying yes" to opportunities that life brings your way.  There is this concept that when you have the courage to give into your desire and dreams and start putting that out there, that the Universe starts to conspire to make it come true.  This is where this whole concept of inspired action comes from which has been the catch phrase for this blog.

It is being tapped into your soul's voice and being able to take inspired action to make your dreams come true.  It is that action that you know feels right to your core and you simply just go with it!  It is so amazing when you just in the right place, right time with the right mindset and everything just works out.  Some call it luck but some know it can be deliberate!  What a concept!

But that can be a scary place as in most cases the way, the path or the how is not very clear to you.  And the ask is to go with what is in front of you trusting that all you need to know unfolds when it has to. That is a scary place.  As in some cases, you have to give up what you know, what you hold onto and what you think makes you feel safe and go into spaces and territory that is new and not known to you or even familiar to you.  Sometimes and for some people, saying yes is scary!

This month let's explore how to have the fear and do it anyway!  Let's look at how we tap into the creative forces, wisdom and intuition that is gifted to us to say yes to life's opportunities and that it all works out as it should.  Here is to new opportunities and riding the wave they offer us.

A Month In Review : Being Of Service

I started off February with some very ambitious intentions in terms of service and what that would mean to give back to Mother Earth, the next generation and to those that matter.  Through this intention, I have come to learn just how important it is to take care of yourself, be fully responsible for yourself and keep working at it.  It is never just a once off effort that you do and then you can stagnate thereafter.  There is a constant call for you to be responsible for your happiness and adjusting as you go along.

I can truly see how when you are aligned to your highest empowering priorities, that you are inspirational to others.  When you in the flow of your bliss that you can be an uplifting energy to those around you.  In some cases it does mean that you could let go of expectations from other people to do things to make you happy.  It is where you need to step up and take responsibility for your life and how it is lived.  That is one of the greatest act of service you can do for those that matter.  Being your happiest as a result of your choices and action, not expecting someone to do all that work for your happiness.

So take that time you need to get your sanity back or to hear your inner voice.  Start looking at what you need to do on a regular basis to keep you plugged into yourself and staying aware to deepen your understanding.  Get into those rituals that make you have fun and keep it light for you.  When you plugged into the awesomeness of you, you are definitely of service to the world.

With Love
CB

Without You! Really?

So, my attention has been on "LURV SONGS"! And no it is not what you thinking. . . . . . . . . . .

I have just notice something about certain love songs that are beginning to make me question than just blindly singing along.  So I have noticed that some love songs speak about how this person will be there forever and how this person is the answer to the one's prayers and just makes life perfect.

I keep on thinking how unfair to that other person that you would claim to love.  How unfair to expect someone to be the "answer" to all your problems, your challenges, your unhappiness or simply to make you feel good about life!  How unfair!  So when those songs beautifully speak to how life is worthless without the person and not even worth living, is that really true?

I am seeing that everyday as an adult is about choice.  On the one side you have your parents, your heroes, your perfect men that got away or your friends that have it all versus on the other side, your higher wisdom, your higher power or God (for some).  And that choice now comes to a point where you choose to keep expecting someone to take care of it for you.  Whether it is  to feel good, take action to better your life, have fun, be happy, be healthy etc.  Each day is a choice of where you put that expectation and on who?

The reality is that it is so much easier with a person and yes we get immediate results but they are not sustainable.  That person is human and will disappoint you and then you back to the reality of what next to give you that good feeling you crave.  Turning to God, The Universe, Higher Power, Higher Self, whatever you would like to call it, means that you have to trust in yourself and your access to that.  It does come down to you being responsible and owning that.  Everyday, I believe we are confronted with that choice in whatever situation or experience we find ourselves in.

You can think back to when you were a child.  You looked to your parents for guidance, for security and trusted in their ability to guide to what was right for you.  But for some, that was not even there for them.  They could see how perfectly human and flawed their parents were and lost that faith in something bigger and wiser than themselves. And the other extreme is still having parents decide for kids that are already adults with kids of their own.  Some could have had a profound love / romantic relationship that helped them explore some of the deepest parts of their heart and losing that amazing mirror of amazingness is hard to let go of.

There are times when the people around us are needed to help us find our answer or go to that place to get to understand ourselves on a deeper level.  But we forget that to get to those places we need to go  through a series of choices.  Choices that we make ourselves and through choices we make alone.  And that is the trick.  Ultimately, it is us making those decisions and we forget that.

So when I hear these love songs speak about how life cannot go on, and how one can never be the same or whole again, or how they could never love that way again and how useless they are without that person not around, I say stop it!  I say ok, maybe for this moment you feel that way, but then there is the next moment where you realise that you still breathing! Then you realise that you have a life!  Then you realise that you have choice and with choice you take that next step and eventually you can decide to let go of the expectation to have someone make you happy and safe.  It's just unfair to expect that of someone.

When I look at my drama over the past few weeks, I am now seeing how I expect certain things to be taken care of by certain people I love.  There were things that were not there for me as a child and stuff I so needed from my Dad to make me feel safe and ok and that no matter what, things would be alright.  And I see how me still expecting that from him today translates into my other relationships that I cherish.  And now is the time to let go and stop expecting that from him!  That time for him to have given that to me is over and whatever I need from him today is available to me from myself as I am now an adult.  So everyday is a CHOICE to either expect him and other forms of him to give me my happiness or myself with the help and grace of God.

Go Strong!